Crossword-Solution: OSTRACISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ostracism | n. | Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage. |
| Ostracism | n. | Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “OSTRACISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the act of excluding someone from society by general consent | 1 answer |
| Society's cold shoulder | 1 answer |
| Social exclusion | 1 answer |
| Fate of one sent to Coventry | 1 answer |
| Exile keeping unruly racists in order | 1 answer |
| Exclusion from social events | 1 answer |
| forbiddance | 49 answers |
| impoundment | 49 answers |
| expatriation | 50 answers |
| ousting | 50 answers |
| relegation | 50 answers |
| chastening | 51 answers |
| penalisation | 51 answers |
| Interdiction | 51 answers |
| Banishment | 53 answers |
| Proscrip-tion | 53 answers |
| DISPLACEMENT ___ | 53 answers |
| Sentence | 57 answers |
| Penalty | 57 answers |
| exclusion | 59 answers |
| Price | 73 answers |
| Decree | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with OSTRACISM (5)
You can't imagine how exhilarated and set-up I feel, as though I'd come into my own again after a period of social ostracism.
And perhaps with perfect truth she asserted that SHE had done nothing to deserve this social ostracism.
The alternative meant a mere pittance of alimony for her; meant for him social ostracism and the small income cut in half; meant for both scandal and confusion.
And to avoid the penalties of the law, and the minor _capitis diminutio_ of social ostracism, is an affair of wisdom—of cunning, if you will—and not of virtue.
Jefferson's attitude toward the man was later on shown to be well justified, as the result of Burr's hateful quarrel with Alexander Hamilton, and his mortally wounding that eminent statesman in a duel, which doomed him to political and social ostracism.
Quotes with OSTRACISM (3)
At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.
Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.
Ostracism is just another form of racism!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1971–1996).